Riccardo Massi

Tenore

On March 23, 2019 Riccardo Massi will return to the Bolshoi Theatre as Des Grieux in the Adolf Shapiro production of Manon Lescaut. Anton Grishanin will conduct. Elena Razgulyaeva will sing Manon; Maxim Aniston Lescaut; Vyacheslav Pochapsky Geronte; and Giorgi Sturua Edmondo. The Bolshoi’s Shapiro staging of Manon Lescaut has special significance for Riccardo Massi: the production’s 2016...

On March 1, 2019 Riccardo Massi will return to the Nationaltheater Mannheim as Pinkerton in a one-off gala performance of Madama Butterfly. He will sing alongside Asmik Grigorian as Cio-Cio-San, and Benjamin Reiners will conduct. This will be Massi’s second gala performance at the Nationaltheater, having first sung there in a very successful 2017 gala performance of Un ballo in maschera...

On February 20, 2019 Riccardo Massi returns to the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow as Riccardo in the season premier of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera in a staging by Davide Livermore conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti. Tatjana Serjan will sing Amelia, Vladimir Stoyanov Renato, Nadia Krasteva Ulrica and Anna Aglatova Oscar. Riccardo Massi will sing a total of three performances with the last show...

On January 22, 2019 Riccardo Massi will make his debut at the Teatro Comunale Bologna as Manrico in Il trovatore in a Robert Wilson production under the musical direction of Pinchas Steinberg, the first of three performances running through January 27, 2019. He will share the stage with Guanqun Yu as Leonora, Dario Solari as Conte di Luna, Nino Surguladze as Azucena and Marco Spotti as Ferrando....

On November 24, 2018 Riccardo Massi will reprise one of his signature roles, Calaf in Turandot for his house debut at the Teatro Degollado in Guadalajara, Mexico. Marco Parisotto will conduct, the staging is by Ragnar Conde. The other leading roles will be sung by Oksana Kramareva (Turandot), Nicole Heaston (Liù) and Grigory Soloviov (Timur). There will be three repeat performances on November...

On November 8 and 10, 2018 Riccardo Massi will return to the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as Renato Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut in a production by Adolf Shapiro and under the musical direction of Maestro Anton Grishanin. He will sing alongside Ainhoa Arteta in the title role, Dalibor Jenis as Lescaut and Vyacheslav Pochapsky as Geronte De Ravoir. This marks Riccardo Massi’s third participation to...

On October 2, 2018 Riccardo Massi will make his role debut as Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra at the Opéra de Marseille, in a production by Leo Nucci and under the musical direction of Maestro Paolo Arrivabeni, the first of a series of four performances running through October 9, 2018. He will sing alongside Juan Jesús Rodriguez in the title role, Olesya Golovneva as Amelia Grimaldi and...

On July 18, 2018 Riccardo Massi will return to the Sydney Opera House to sing the role of Radamès in Aida, in a production by Davide Livermore conducted by Maestros Andrea Battistoni and Pier Giorgio Morandi, the first of a series of nine performances running though August 27, 2018. He will share the stage with Amber Wagner and Natalie Aroyan alternating in the title role, Elena Gabouri,...

On May 29, 2018 Riccardo Massi will make his debut at the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires as Radamès in Aida, in a production with stage concept and set designs by Roberto Oswald conducted by Maestro Carlos Vieu, the first of a series of four performances running through June 5, 2018. He will share the stage with Latonia Moore as Aida, Nadia Krasteva as Amneris, Mark Rucker as Amonasro and Roberto...

On the occasion of his performances as Cavaradossi in “Tosca” at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Riccardo Massi was interviewed by Amanda Holloway for Opera Now. You can read the May issue with the complete cover feature on the following link: https://bit.ly/2r56GBd

On March 21, 2018 Riccardo Massi makes his originally scheduled debut at the Staatsoper Hamburg as Cavaradossi in Tosca. His unexpected debut at the prestigious German opera house took place on March 17, when he jumped in for a colleague in the tenor solo part of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. In Robert Carsen’s Tosca production Riccardo shares the stage with Angela Gheorghiu in the title...

On February 17, 2018 Riccardo Massi will return to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London as Cavaradossi in Tosca, in a production by Jonathan Kent and under the musical direction of Plácido Domingo, the first of a series of three performances running through March 3, 2018, in which he will share the stage with Martina Serafin in the title role and Marco Vratogna as Scarpia. Riccardo...

On January 26 and 28, 2018 Riccardo Massi will sing Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca at the Palm Beach Opera. The production is by Fenlon Lamb and Maestro David Stern will conduct. He will share the stage with Keri Alkema in the title role and Michael Chioldi as Scarpia. Cavaradossi is one of Riccardo Massi’s most performed roles, having already sung it at the Bavarian State Opera, Berlin State Opera,...

The Italian newspaper Il Resto del Carlino announced Riccardo’s 2017/18 engagements. Next up: Cavaradossi in Tosca at the Palm Beach Opera opening on January 26. In February and March he’ll sing the same role at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and at the Staatsoper Hamburg (house debut). .

On November 23 and 25, 2017 Riccardo Massi will sing Mario Cavaradossi in concert performances of Tosca with the KBS Symphony Orchestra in South Korea. The performance on November 23 will take place at the Ansan Arts Center, the second performance on November 25 at the Seoul Arts Center. Soprano Ekaterina Metlova will sing the title role and baritone Franco Vassallo that of Scarpia. Yoel Levi...

On October 25, 2017, Riccardo Massi will return to the Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow as Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut, almost one year to the day since he made his role debut at the same opera house. The production is by Adolf Shapiro and Anton Grishanin will conduct the three performances running through October 29. He will share the stage with Ainhoa Arteta in the title role, Igor Golovatenko as...

Dear Friends, An unfortunate clash of dates has forced to me to cancel Attila. This decision makes me extremely sad and I apologize to all the people who were expecting to hear me sing in Lyon. I always love singing for French audiences, and was really looking forward to making my debut at L’Opéra De Lyon. Maestro Daniele Rustioni and I have already worked together twice on works by Giuseppe...

On October 10, 2017, Riccardo Massi will make his Hong Kong Opera debut as Radamès in Aida in a production by Jean-Louis Grinda conducted by Maestro Xu Zhong. This is the first of a series of three performances running through October 14, 2017. He will share the stage with Hui He and Marjorie Owens alternating in the title role, Violeta Urmana as Amneris, Reginald Smith Jr. and Sun Li as...

On September 9, 2017 Riccardo Massi will make his Los Angeles Opera debut as Don José in a Ron Daniels production of Carmen that will inaugurate L.A. Opera’s 2017/2018 season. Conducted by Maestro James Conlon, he will appear alongside Ana María Martínez in the title role, Amanda Woodbury as Micäela and Alexander Vinogradov as Escamillo. It will be the first of four performances running through...

RICCARDO MASSI TO STAR AS MANRICO IN IL TROVATORE AT THE BUDAPEST SUMMER FESTIVAL On July 28 and 30, 2017 Riccardo Massi will star as Manrico in Il trovatore at the Budapest Summer Festival in a production by László Vámos conducted by Balázs Kocsár. Alongside him Dinara Alieva will sing the role of Leonora, Mihály Kálmándy that of Count of Luna and Ildikó Komlósi will be Azucena. “Manrico is one...

Riccardo Massi in a gala performance of Un ballo in maschera at the Nationaltheater Mannheim On July 15, 2017 Riccardo Massi will star as Gustavo (Riccardo) in a gala performance of Un ballo in maschera conducted by Benjamin Reiners at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, with Sondra Radvanovsky as Amelia and Jorge Lagunes as Anckarström (Renato). “Gustavo, or – as it is more commonly known – Riccardo...

RICCARDO MASSI AS DON JOSÉ IN CARMEN AT THE 2017 KAOHSIUNG SPRING ARTS FESTIVAL IN TAIWAN On June 2 and 4, 2016, Riccardo Massi will sing the role of Don José at the Taiwan KSAF in a Matthew Barclay production of Carmen conducted by Chin-Chin Yang, alongside Kirstin Chávez in the title role. “Matthew Barclay’s production is as a whole traditional”, says Riccardo Massi about this...

On April 27, 2017 Riccardo Massi will make his Cologne Opera debut as Calaf in a Lydia Steier production of Turandot conducted by Claude Schnitzler, the first of six performances running through May 14, 2107. He will perform alongside Catherine Foster / Mlada Khudoley in the title role, Guanquin Yu / Ivana Rusko as Liù and Mika Kares / Lucas Singer as Timur. Since his 2013 role debut at the...

RICCARDO MASSI TO RETURN TO THE METROPOLITAN OPERA AS RADAMES IN AIDA On April 10, 2017 Riccardo Massi returns to the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Radames in Aida, in the historical Sonja Frisell production conducted by Daniele Rustioni. Krassimira Stoyanova and Latonia Moore will share the title role, Violeta Urmana will be Amneris, George Gagnidze will sing the role of Amonasro and James...

RICCARDO MASSI TO MAKE HIS HOUSE DEBUT AS PINKERTON IN MADAMA BUTTERFLY AT THE NEW NATIONAL THEATRE IN TOKYO. On February 2, 2017 Riccardo Massi will make his New National Theatre Tokyo debut as F.B. Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, in a production by Tamiya Kuriyama conducted by Maestro Philippe Auguin. The series of four performances will run through February 11, 2017. Riccardo...

Chen Shi-Zheng’s spectacular production of Turandot, recorded at the Sydney Harbour earlier this year with Riccardo Massi as Calaf, Dragana Radakovic​ in the title role, Hyeseoung Kwon as Liù and conducted by Brian Castles-Onion has been released on DVD: https://shop.abc.net.au/products/handa-opera-on-sydney-harbour-giacomo-puccini-turandot-dvd

“Riccardo Massi – from stuntman to star tenor” Prior to the premiere of Manon Lescaut at the Berlin State Opera, the German magazine DAS OPERNGLAS published an extensive cover interview with Riccardo Massi in their December issue. Read the interview on the magazine’s website: http://bit.ly/2gEUza6 Riccardo will sing Des Grieux in the premiere of Manon Lescaut at the...

In December Riccardo Massi will perform Des Grieux in a new production of Manon Lescaut at the Staatsoper im Schillertheater, Berlin. In Jürgen Flimm’s staging Anna Nechaeva will sing the title role, Roman Trekel Lescaut, Franz Hawlata Geronte and Stephan Rügamer Edmondo. Mikhail Tatarnikov will conduct. There will be six performances on December 4, 8, 11, 16, 19 & 22, 2016. More...

On October 18, 2016 Riccardo Massi will make his role debut as Des Grieux in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut in a new production at the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow. This will also be his debut at the famous Russian opera house. Ainhoa Arteta will sing the title role, Jader Benjamini will conduct. There will be three performances on October 18, 20 and 23. More information on http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/performances/1009/roles/#20161018190000

In September you can enjoy Riccardo Massi’s Calaf in Turandot in cinemas worldwide and on television. On several dates the stunning production recorded at the Sydney Harbour in March 2016 will be screened in cinemas worldwide: http://www.turandotonsydneyharbour.com/ And on September 17 at 8:15 pm CET the production from the Bregenz Festival 2015 will be shown on the Austrian TV channel...